Trump’s speech in Costa Mesa was his first public appearance in California since it became clear the state’s June 7 primary would be crucial in determining whether he can win the 1,237 delegates needed to clinch the GOP nomination. “We’re going to have to get a lot tougher than we are because we have problems,” he told thousands of cheering supporters. Then he told a discredited story about a World War I-era general who allegedly stopped an insurgency by ordering his troops to kill Muslim terrorists with bullets dipped in pigs’ blood. Speaking at the Orange County Fairgrounds in Costa Mesa, Trump brought on the families of people allegedly killed by immigrants in this country illegally before reiterating that he would build an enormous wall on the southern border and make Mexico pay for it. In the kickoff to his California campaign, GOP front-runner Donald Trump doubled down on his most controversial statements Thursday as he courts the most conservative elements of the state Republican Party. WATCH: /MEgRNTF3qr- FOX 11 Los Angeles April 29, 2016 “It is a terrifying image,” Cruz replied.Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump speaking at rally in Costa Mesa “But every day, if he gets closer to the nomination, he starts taking his mask off, and behind the Donald Trump mask is Hillary Clinton.” “You know who I feel the worst for? I feel the worst for Donald’s supporters who believe his role,” Cruz said. He hammered the real estate magnate over his past political donations to Clinton, his vow to be “neutral” in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and his promise to slap a tariff on goods made in China, which Cruz said would cause a recession. ‘Behind the Donald Trump mask is Hillary Clinton’Ĭruz, who has long questioned Trump’s conservative credentials, said his rival has merely been pretending to be a Republican in order to capture the nomination. “If you look at Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump and John Boehner, they’re all part of the same corrupt Washington system where the rich get richer (and) the powerful and the lobbyists use government power for personal benefit,” Cruz said. “And there’s a reason – if you like, if you want to see the next president as a Boehner Republican, then Donald Trump is your man.” He said Donald is his friend, his golfing buddy, his texting buddy,” Cruz said. He thinks she’s terrific, and he praised Donald Trump. But it’s interesting, when Boehner was attacking me, he praised Hillary Clinton. “I think Boehner kinda let out his inner Trump, and he had some colorful imagery there. She’s an extraordinary leader.”įormer House Speaker John Boehner torched Cruz in a withering interview at Stanford University last week, calling the Texas senator “Lucifer in the Flesh” and a “miserable son of a b-.”Īsked about the criticism, Cruz shrugged it off. “You know, we all remember when Ronald Reagan picked George Herbert Walker Bush as his vice president and they had to explain why Bush had called Reaganomics ‘voodoo economics.’ Listen, that happens when you come through a primary and you unite.”Ĭruz added: “I can tell you Carly and I have spent weeks and weeks and weeks together on the road barnstorming the state of Indiana, barnstorming the country, and I have gotten to know and respect Carly. She was a fierce competitor in a primary people take shots at each other. In January, Carly Fiorina told CNN’s Dana Bash on “State of the Union” that Cruz – then a presidential rival – says “whatever he needs to say to get elected, and then he’s going to do as he pleases.”Ĭruz told Tapper that Fiorina’s words owed to her being a tough competitor. “This is the height of political correctness for Donald Trump to say yes, let grown men in the bathroom with little girls,” he said. But there are predators in the world, and just saying that you’re a man, you can go in the girls’ restroom if you feel like it, opens the door for criminals.”Ĭruz didn’t spare Trump in his criticism. “That doesn’t mean that that is the people who are transgendered. “I’ve spent a lot of years in law enforcement dealing with child predators that are sick individuals,” Cruz told Tapper. RELATED: Caitlyn Jenner: I did not endorse Ted Cruz or Donald TrumpĪfter using a women’s bathroom in the Trump International Hotel and Tower in New York City – following a recent comment by Trump in which he said Jenner could use whichever bathroom she wanted at the tower – Jenner, a Republican, quipped: “By the way, Ted, nobody got molested.” Jenner, a reality TV star and activist for transgender causes, posted a video to Facebook on Wednesday knocking Cruz for his support of a controversial North Carolina law that requires people to use the bathroom that corresponds with their “biological sex” stated on their birth certificate, rather than how they self-identify. Jenner, Cruz, Trump and the transgender bathroom debate
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